Today we had an excavator on site to form a truck crossing just to the Upper Hutt side of the pedestrian crossing. House trucks and other over-dimension loads request to cross both KiwiRail and our railway lines on a reasonably regular basis — and we had a few tasks to complete before the next crossing can take place. A low concrete wall at the base of our security fence needed pouring. Hard fill had to be placed between our mainline track and the wall, and a ramp from the wall down to the driveway level. A good amount of ballast was also placed on and about the track at the crossing point.
Forming landing pad of hard fill to south of crossing
Tr189 stands by with rake of ballast wagons ready to plough out ballast